Good news, kind of. I discovered a new sentence structure I hate. It’s a pattern I see often but only recently, while editing an article, realized it belongs in my writing hall of shame.

All major languages have a grammatical structure ... What is a simple sentence? A simple sentence is built from the minimum of a subject and a main verb. What is a compound sentence?

Sentence diagramming was once a widespread technique for teaching kids how to analyze the structure of a sentence. If you had to do it in school, you either loved it or you hated it. Most kids ...

A: Word-by-word predictors of syntactic complexity were extracted from the constituent structure of the sentence spoken by a participant and listened to by other participants (D). The height of ...